Chapter 835

Now that her son was finally making a name for himself, she was eager for him to dump Sallie and find a new, obedient wife whom she could control.

"Mom, stop causing trouble! Someone, please, get my mother out of here!" James was at his wit's end. Dozens of security guards rushed in and escorted the still- protesting Mercer matriarch away. The mistress and her baby were not so lucky; they were taken away by the police.

James, drenched in sweat, was left alone in the vast hall with his wife and father-in- law. The remaining employees had discreetly slipped away, knowing it was unwise to be privy to such secrets.

"Dad, that woman was a fraud. Please, don't believe her. So many people are targeting me these days. I truly only love Sallie," James pleaded, his voice cracking.

But Mrs. Mercer simply threw a folder at his face. A DNA report fluttered to the floor. "Is this a setup too, James? I have tolerated you for a very long time. Do you have any idea what you've done today? You humiliated me in front of the entire company, and you let that woman and her child barge in. What do you take me for?"

Sallie's father looked on with profound disappointment. "James, all these years, I've treated you like my own son, waiting for you to deliver a result I could be proud of. Today, I finally got it, only for you to pull a stunt like this."

His voice was heavy with sorrow. Mrs. Mercer sat stiffly on a velvet sofa, her face a cold mask. James scrambled toward his wife in a panic. "Sallie, I'm telling you the truth! I have no idea who is trying to frame me. Someone must be trying to ruin our marriage for their own gain!"

Mrs. Mercer let out a cold laugh. "Who could possibly frame you? Your mother? Did you not hear what she just said? That I can't give you a son, that she'll let you divorce me, that I should accept another woman's child? Didn't those words come from her own mouth? James, do you really think I'm so desperate that I have to stay with you?"

Terrified, James began to stammer. "Honey, listen to me, that's not it. My mother must have been duped by that woman!"

He was utterly defeated now. The banquet that was meant to be his triumphant moment in front of his wife and father-in-law had been utterly ruined by his mother.

Sallie's father stood up, and Sallie immediately moved to support him. "Some things you have to figure out for yourself. I have nothing more to say to you."

As his wife and father-in-law walked away, James's legs gave out, and he collapsed onto the sofa, unable to ro ve for a tổng ime. After Sittin there for what felt like an eternity, he finally regained his senses and

found the strength to stand.

He drove back to his villa, where the Mercer matriarch was pacing furiously, yelling at the maids. When she saw her son's car, she rushed out to meet him. "You are you trying to kill me with anger? My grandson—"

James ignored her, stormed into her room, and began packing her things himself. "You... what are you doing?" Seeing her son throwing her luggage outside, the Mercer matriarch was dumbfounded.

After tossing out the last of her belongings, James turned to her. "Mom, don't blame me for being unfilial. I brought you to the city to enjoy your life when I made it, and what do you do? You conspire with outsiders to bring me down."

The matriarch was stunned. "What are you talking about, 'conspire with outsiders'? That's my daughter-in-law and my grandson!"

"You want a daughter-in-law, right?

Fine. Take that woman with you. Take the child back to the

countryside and raise him yourself.

Don't worry, I'll give you two

thousand dolla

a month forliving

expenses. You can do whatever you

want, but stay out of my life."

The Mercer matriarch stared in disbelief. "Are you even human? I'm your mother! I was doing it for you, for the good of the Mercer family! What use is that barren woman to you?"

James cut her off. "What use is she?

She gives me an endless supply of money and more respect than I could ever earn on my own. What does the woman you brought Kere do? She eats my food, lives in my house, and tries to ruin me. Since she gave you a grandson you can take them both. I won't interfere. But

from now

oh youstay inthe",

countryside and you don't come

looking for me. Stay as far away as you possibly can."